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Old 31-01-2008, 01:00 AM
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Default 101 Funniest British Cinema Moments
... as chosen by Britmovie members ;)

I'll start with a few

1. the restaurant fight in Bridget Jones's Diary
2. "I went to Cambridge." from The Lady Vanishes
3. Margaret Rutherford polishing off the drink in Blithe Spirit

Come on, more please.

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Margaret Rutherford in just about anything, but particularly the shoplifting in Trouble in Store (1953). When she leans over the model railway and lets the train run up her sleeve - genius.

Conductor 71 (Marius Goring) in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), as he arrives on the Technicolor Earth after some time in the black & white "other place":
"Ah, one is starved for Technicolor up there"
Always gets a laugh from the audience

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Michael Caine in Little Voice singing 'It's Over'

Michael Caine in Without A Clue, reading a paper, face blackened and hair in shock erect, denying all knowledge of a small chemical explosion in the Baker Streeet living room to Dr. Watson.
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There's a deja vue about this thread .... but here's my contribution

Alistair Sim in Laughter in Paradise, trying to break into a car, and a dog inside jumps at the window.

Sim's shock reaction and facial expression are classic.
This is war Wilson, not Sainsburys!
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You knew it would be brought up sooner or later:

The dinner scene in Carry on up the Khyber.
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`Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off` (Had to be said!)
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`Remember, in this country they drive on the wrong side of the road`


Oh yeah, and `come on Dover, move yer blummin` arse`





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We`re changin` lodggggggggings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Dole queue scene in 'The Full Monty'.
.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!
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Tony Hancock in The Rebel : "Who's gone raving mad here?"

Upon being asked how he mixes his paint: "In a bucket, with a big stick"

Pretty much anything from The Rebel actually...


Peter Cook to Dudley Moore in Monte Carlo or Bust: "If these bobsleigh wallahs don't get a move on we'll never make the checkpoint in time!"

Peter Sellers surrounded by cats in The Wrong Box

Dennis Price and Peter Jones as unctuous car salesmen in School for Scoundrels
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It doesn't matter how many times I hear the best of the old Carry On gags they still make me laugh - 'Infamy, infamy etc' and 'Sinister, dexter, sinister, dexter' from Cleo, 'Frying tonight' from Screaming as Kenny Willliams descends into the vat of oil, not to mention 'Fakir, off!' from Khyber.

True it doesn't take much to amuse me but I'm sure I'm not alone here :-)
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The radio broadcast in Ask a Policeman

The taunting by the French knights and the Trojan Rabbit in Holy Grail

Any of Kathy Burke's scenes as Mary Tudor in Elizabeth
"He plays with the pixies"
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Hotel guest in Genevieve (when Joyce Grenfell is giving convoluted hours for bathing and Dinah Sheridan has a fit): "Are they Americans?"
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Almost every scene from The Wrong Arm of the Law - brilliant script
'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!
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[quote=dremble wedge;114209]Tony Hancock in The Rebel : "Who's gone raving mad here?"

Upon being asked how he mixes his paint: "In a bucket, with a big stick"

Pretty much anything from The Rebel actually..



'Im not from the realist school of art im an impressionist'
'Well it dont impress me'.

'What's that?'
'Thats a self portrait'
'Who of'?
'Laurel and Hardy'.

I love THE REBEL.
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Well, though I agree with all the previous suggestions, I have to stand up for the divine Jack Buchanan. I laughed fit to bust in the scene in "That's a Good Girl" where he comes onto the stage by mistake in a ridiculous costume musical drama. I don't normally like slapstick but that was perfect. I just hope that if I mention this film (my favourite) enough someone somewhere will show it or even better release it.
"I've come a long way you know!" "Equally long way to go back..."
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